Category Archives: Magento

Magento is an e-commerce platform created on open source technology, which provides online merchants with an exceptional flexibility and control over the content, look and functionality of their e-commerce store.

Magento is an open-source content management system for e-commerce web sites. The software was originally developed by Varien Inc., a US private company headquartered in Culver City, California, with assistance from volunteers.

Varien published the first general-availability release of the software on March 31, 2008, under the name Bento. Roy Rubin, former CEO of Varien, later sold a substantial share of the company to eBay, which is now the sole owner.

According to research conducted by aheadWorks in October 2014, Magento’s market share among the 30 most popular e-commerce platforms is about 30%.

Magento employs the MySQL relational database management system, the PHP programming language, and elements of the Zend Framework. It applies the conventions of object-oriented programming and model-view-controller architecture. Magento also uses the entity–attribute–value model to store data.

3) Go to the terminal and change the directory to the location where the current magento site is running
4) Remove all the cache files $ rm -rf var/cache/*
5) Remov the folder downloader $ rm -rf downloader
6) Copy the folder “downloader” from the latest package to the current site $ cp -a magento/downloader
7) Move the file “ mage” from the latest package to teh current site $ cp magento/mage
8) Chnage the permision $ chmod 550 ./mage
9) Run the following commands

1) From admin panel of your magento site , go to the option “Main Menu” under the top menu “System”
2) Create a new store in the Magento store manager
3) Select a root category for the new store
4) Crate a store view for the new store
5) Update welcome message and logo